Cats, they eat native birds but they also make really good pets so please vote for which option is what your opinion is, cats, no cats, or cats that live permanently inside. poll

I think that it depends on the locality. In localities where the cats were present outside for “ages” (like in the Central Europe where I live), other species had a long time to be used to that and beware of the cats as their natural predators. (And they are not just feral, they are normally kept by…

Since this topic isn’t directly related to iNat I moved it to the Nature Talk category.

This episode of “HIdden Brain” had a good discussion of this issue with the author Hal Herzog who writes about human animal relationships. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/17/733456435/pets-pests-and-food-our-complex-contradictory-attitudes-toward-animals

Arg! It’s a podcast. Do you know if they have a transcript somewhere (npr usually does)? I’d much rather read than listen to a podcast. But it sounds very interesting! Taking a long drive yesterday, and seeing all the dead animals on the roadside (3 raccoons, 1 possum, 1 skunk, and I was driving so…

[image] haida_gwaii: It seems strange that we decide certain beings are unholy and other things are just extraneous. Welcome to the world of speciesism. Our society is so backwards.

Yes there’s a transcript link on that page.

[image] bouteloua: moved it to the Nature Talk category. Thanks, guess I was asleep on the job :sleeping:

Some people have a catio. An enclosed space where cats have a view and the breeze.

Just reminding everyone again, (thanks @jdmore !) that this conversation has covered many of the points being brought up here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/should-cats-be-culled-to-stop-extinctions/1628 thoughts from the community on combining topics with an adjustment to the topic titles?

Cats: good or bad

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